Bile Acid Bacterial Feed Additive for Mutton Sheep Fat Reduction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for raising mutton sheep face challenges such as reduced feeding due to grazing restrictions, lack of scientific feed ratios, leading to uneven growth and potential yellow fat disease, and the use of veterinary drugs with side effects that can affect meat quality and consumer health.

Innovation Solution

A bile acid composite bacterial agent comprising a Parabacteroides distasonis bacterial suspension, specifically strain LCG-06, is used as a feed additive, mixed with bile acids in an optimized ratio, to enhance growth and reduce body fat in mutton sheep, promoting healthier nutrition absorption and increased slaughter weight.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If veterinary drugs or conventional feed additives are used to promote growth, then growth rate improves, but harmful residues remain in the body affecting meat quality and consumer health

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegrowth rateVSAvoiddrug residues in meat
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the chemical parameters of feed additives by using bile acid composite bacterial agents instead of conventional veterinary drugs. This substitution transforms the composition of the feeding system, eliminating harmful drug residues while maintaining growth promotion effects through natural bacterial metabolism and bile acid regulation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs easily degradable bacterial agents and natural bile acids that are metabolized completely by the animals, replacing persistent synthetic drugs. These natural components break down into harmless substances, ensuring no long-term residue accumulation in the meat product.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If grazing is restricted and feeding amount is reduced, then environmental protection improves, but sheep growth and fattening are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental pollution from grazingVSAvoidsheep growth rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces bile acid composite bacterial agents as intermediaries that enhance the efficiency of controlled feeding. These agents mediate between the limited feed supply and the sheep's nutritional needs, improving nutrient absorption and utilization rates, thereby maintaining growth performance despite reduced feeding amounts from grazing restrictions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the nutritional parameters of the feed system by incorporating bacterial agents that improve digestibility and nutrient utilization. This allows the same amount of feed to provide greater nutritional value, compensating for the reduced intake from grazing restrictions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of manufacture

If unscientific feed ratios are used, then feeding cost is reduced, but yellow fat disease occurs and meat quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeeding costVSAvoidyellow fat disease
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism through bile acid composite bacterial agents that regulate lipid metabolism. These agents monitor and adjust fat synthesis pathways, providing feedback control that prevents abnormal fat accumulation and yellow fat disease while maintaining cost-effective feeding through optimized nutrient utilization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The bacterial agents in the patent enable the animals' digestive systems to self-regulate nutrient absorption and metabolism. The microbes perform self-service functions by breaking down feed more efficiently and regulating lipid metabolism automatically, reducing the need for expensive precision feeding while preventing metabolic diseases.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The bacterial agent effectively reduces body fat percentage, increases slaughter weight and rate, and enhances the overall quality of mutton sheep, providing a safer and more profitable farming outcome without toxic side effects.

Implementation Method 1

The bile acid composite bacterial agent comprises a Parabacteroides distasonis bacterial suspension and bile acid, wherein the Parabacteroides distasonis bacterial suspension is obtained by culture and fermentation of a Parabacteroides distasonis LCG-06

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFermentation: Fermentation

Data Source

PatentUS11590178B2Application of a bile acid composite bacterial agent in the preparation of feed additives for mutton sheep
Publication Date: 2023.02.28 SHANDONG LONGCHANG ANIMAL HEALTH PROD CO LTD
  • US11590178B2 patent drawing

AI summary

The present invention discloses application of a bile acid composite bacterial agent in the preparation of feed additives for mutton sheep. The bile acid composite bacterial agent comprises Parabacteroides distasonis bacterial suspension and bile acid, and the Parabacteroides distasonis bacterial suspension is obtained by cultivation and fermentation of Parabacteroides distasonis LCG-06 with the deposit number CGMCC No. 20820. The bile acid composite bacterial agent of the present invention has natural components and has no toxic and side effects, and can significantly increase the growth rate of mutton sheep and promote nutrition absorption, accelerate the decomposition of in vivo fat of mutton sheep, thereby reducing the body fat percentage of mutton sheep, increasing the slaughter weight and slaughter rate of mutton sheep, increasing the incomes for breeding of mutton sheep. Therefore, it has broad application prospects.